It is rich in historical tidbits on ukulele manufacture, and wonderful essays. The site assembled by the late John King, musician, recording artist, historian and author. The website includes profiles of 19 inductees to date, and a cool “Reference Desk” section with many images of methods books, sheet music, and ukulele instruments. A nonprofit organization founded in 1996 and dedicated to preserving ukulele history. So here is another list of some notable resources about ‘ukulele. All Rights Reserved.Īloha Dear Readers! I am a historian.
Stop by any paint store, or any paint department in your local home improvement store, and youʻll see endless varieties of green.īut in the meantime, here are some opening thoughts. In anticipation of turning my attention back to the long-unfinished book projects, I am going to start thinking aloud.Īt the “Debating Culture” event on April 21, Jeff Au Hoy stepped to the microphone and asked each of the panelists to give our definitions of “Hawaiian music.” The question might as well have been “what is green?” Lime green vs.
The story itself, however, makes no mention of the title of the event–“Debating Culture,” which was an added program to the series “… aia i ka wai … Dialogues on Hawaiian Music” at UH Mānoa, and the story fails to mention that title of the story is practically a quote from my remarks to which interviewees in the story were, in fact, responding.Ĭoming soon: a response from the same April 21 program to a thoughtful query from journalist Denby Fawcett.
Ironically, too, local tv news station K5 posted the following story on April 22, 2010: “What is Hawaiian music? Thereʻs no one answer.” I say “ironic,” because the story filed by reporter Ben Gutierrez contains quotes from several attendees. I think the more important question that we have to start thinking about is NOT what is Hawaiian music, how do we define Hawaiian music, but what about any given song or what about any given presentation of a song is Hawaiian? And thereʻs never ever going to be one answer that satisfies everyone. This is like a four-dimensional Rubricʻs quadri-cube thatʻs going on. To me, the question “what is Hawaiian music” is never going to be answered in a way that is going to satisfy everyone, because it is so complex, because it involves a combination, a complex, overlapping and interweaving, o f different kinds of songs, different languages, differents kinds of musicians, different kinds of musical styles. It is a question that has licensed people to come to blows with each other and say uncalled for things about each other in very uncivil ways. That is the question that has led to so much divisiveness. In my years of archival research and my years of talking to people–friends, family, musicians, kumu hula–I am coming to believe that the question “what is Hawaiian music” is not the question at all that we should be asking. Here, now, is a direct quotation from the Approgram “Debating Culture,” which I finished transcribing yesterday. After all, what better than straight from the horseʻs mouth, ʻeā? And when I get to that section in my transcribing, I will post a direct quote. My response? Well, I really should share a transcript of my response that evening. In last weekʻs post I wrote the following:Īt the “Debating Culture” event on April 21, Jeff Au Hoy stepped to the microphone and asked each of the panelists to give our definitions of “Hawaiian music.”.